This annual event is a chance to step into a local sugar house and see the sugar makers at work! If you’re visiting Vermont or just watching your friends and neighbors at work, see how syrup is made from start to finish, sap to syrup!

Some sugar houses are open daily for sight see-ers and curious people alike, but this one weekend each sugar season even more sugar makers open their doors to show the public how our favorite Vermont specialty is created.

Each sugar maker does everything a little different. You might get to see older, traditional taps at work, while collecting buckets by hand, or the more present day method of sap lines and tubing that bring the sap right to the sugar house. Wood fired, oil fired, and different styled evaporators. Everyone’s syrup is held to the same standard though, and it should all taste delicious! There’s nothing better than hot syrup straight out of the evaporator.

Here are some great ideas for the weekend:

Take a snowshoe through some tap lines

Make sure you have some sugar on snow, paired wish a fresh doughnut and that good ol’ dill pickle to cut the sweetness

Try a maple hard boiled egg, or even a hot dog (They boil both in sap to give them that little bit of sweetness)